Evidence of Murder: A Novel of Suspense by Lisa Black

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By Lisa Black

8 months in the past, forensic investigator Theresa MacLean misplaced her fiancÉ in a financial institution theft long gone unsuitable, and she's had hassle focusing on her paintings ever seeing that. yet now a very tricky case may be what she must regain her concentration by means of challenging all her ability, intelligence, and attention.

Jillian Perry has been came upon lifeless within the woods, forsaking a husband of 3 weeks and a tender daughter. The police can't make sure how she died--her physique indicates no seen marks, and the post-mortem unearths not anything suspicious--and the best thought is that she purposely wandered into the woodland and succumbed to the freezing climate. yet anything doesn't consider correct to Theresa, and he or she can't permit it go.

To complicate issues, a former boyfriend of Jillian's without notice petitions for custody of the daughter. passionate about Jillian, he additionally suspects foul play in Jillian's demise, and now he and Theresa think Jillian's daughter can be at risk of assembly the same destiny. With a child's existence at stake, Theresa needs to look for proof of murder--evidence that doesn't appear to exist--before it's too past due.

Is there no rationalization of the secret of The Haunted inn? Is The Haunted lodge the story of a haunting -- or the story of a criminal offense? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace inn in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying spouse, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the guts of the phobia that fills the Palace resort.

Set within the comparable fictional London as his CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Slough apartment sequence, Mick Herron now introduces Tom Bettany, an ex-spook with a violent earlier and just one factor to dwell for: Avenging his son's death.

Tom Bettany is operating at a meat processing plant in France whilst he will get a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesn't comprehend telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead--Liam Bettany fell from his London balcony, the place he used to be smoking dope.

Now for the 1st time in view that he minimize all ties years in the past, Bettany returns domestic to London to determine the reality approximately his son's dying. might be it's the guilt he feels approximately wasting contact together with his son that's gnawing at him, or even he's really positioned his finger on a labyrinthine plot, yet both means he'll unravel the tragedy, regardless of whose feathers he has to ruffle. yet quite a lot of everyone is to listen to Bettany is again on the town, from incarcerated mob bosses to these within the optimum echelons of MI5. He may need idea he'd left all of it at the back of whilst he first skipped city, yet not anyone quite simply walks away.

Over the distant important Pacific, an airliner is rocked through an immense explosion and plummets into the sea, leaving no survivors.

Twelve hundred miles away in Hawaii, Kai Tanaka, the appearing director of the Pacific Tsunami caution Centre in Honolulu, notes a minor seismic disturbance yet doesn't make the relationship with the misplaced aircraft. He has no cause to fret approximately his spouse, supervisor of a luxurious resort, or his daughter, who's having fun with the light at Waikiki beach.

But whilst all touch with neighbouring Christmas Island is misplaced, Kai is the 1st to achieve that Hawaii faces an epic disaster: in a single hour, a sequence of big waves will wipe out Honolulu. He has simply sixty mins to save lots of the lives of one million humans, together with his spouse and daughter. ..

Addictive and fast paced, The Tsunami Countdown pitches a regular guy opposed to the chances in an electrifying and action-packed mystery. You won't be capable to positioned it down.

The condominium on chilly Hill is a chilling and suspenseful ghost tale from the multi-million replica bestselling writer of useless uncomplicated, Peter James.

Moving from the guts of Brighton and Hove to the Sussex nation-state is a giant project for Ollie and Caro Harcourt and their twelve-year-old daughter Jade. but if they view chilly Hill condo - a tremendous, dilapidated Georgian mansion - Ollie is full of pleasure. regardless of the monetary pressure of the stream, he has dreamed of residing within the nation considering the fact that he was once a toddler, and he sees chilly Hill condo as a paradise for his animal-loving daughter, definitely the right base for his web-design enterprise and a very good long term funding. Caro is much less definite, and Jade is grumpy approximately being separated from her friends.

Within days of relocating in, it turns into obvious that the Harcourt family members aren't the single citizens of the home. a pal of Jade's is the 1st to work out the spectral lady, status at the back of her because the ladies speak on FaceTime. Then there are extra sightings, in addition to more and more nerve-racking occurrences in the home. because the haunting turns into extra malevolent and the home itself starts to show at the Harcourts, the terrified kinfolk detect chilly Hill House's darkish historical past, and the terrible fact of what it will probably suggest for them . . .

He felt a little weak, a little dizzy. He had no time for either. To clear his head he thought about his bride of five months burrowing under the covers of their bed as he had dressed to leave for this crime scene. A warm sense of calm washed over him and he smiled a little at what a lucky son of a bitch he really was. ” Mendez had come out the kitchen door. He took a deep breath of the cool morning air, clearing his head of the stench of violent death. The yard around the house was scattered with pots of geraniums and marigolds and garden herbs.

She would say hello to him and he would just hang around, looking at her. He never had much to say. ” “Did Ms. ” “No. I was afraid of him,” she admitted. “That’s strange—don’t you think? ” “No. When I would say something about it, she would just shrug it off. ‘That’s just Zander,’ she would say. ‘He’s harmless,’ she would say. ” She looked at him hard, looking for an answer he couldn’t give her. ” “We’ve already spoken with Mr. Zahn,” he said. She sat up a little at that. “And? ” “That’s really annoying, you know,” she snapped, brushing a rope of unruly waves back behind one ear.

You get to leave,” he said, fidgeting on his chair. “I don’t. ” he asked bluntly. ” Anne never considered herself naïve. She had firsthand knowledge that not every child grew up in an ideal environment. But no one had suspected the horror Dennis’s life had been. He had been physically and emotionally abused, and had been made an orphan a year ago by the murder of his mother and the suicide of his father, a deputy sheriff. Just hours before his father’s suicide, Dennis had stabbed a class-mate, a little boy who had been his only friend.